Professor & Chair, Surgery-Administration

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Job Description - Professor & Chair, Surgery-Administration (2500487)

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Consistent with the core values of the institution, the Professor and Chair of a Department is responsible for the entrepreneurial growth, development, and quality of educational, scientific and clinical programs within the department and the organization  Professor and Chair is also responsible for the overall leadership and management of the department consistent with guidelines set forth in the UTMB Handbook of Operating Procedures and the Board of Regents' Rules and Regulations.

This oversight includes the appropriate and optimal use of human, financial, space, and other resources to successfully manage the clinical, educational and research missions of the department in support of organizational goals and needs.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Clinical Mission:

• Provides leadership over the institution‘s organizational structure driving department-related activities, including vice chairs, division directors, and medical directors, who aim to manage clinical program development, revenue growth, expense management, and operational efficiencies that work to support the organization’s clinical program needs.
• Ensures that clinical faculty and staff accept responsibility and perform duties in a timely and efficient manner, utilizing clinical resources to produce good patient outcomes as measured by both accepted standards of practice and by patient satisfaction surveys, whether inpatient or clinic patients.
• Partners with health system colleagues to support goals and activities driving growth, revenue, quality, and cost control.
• Responsible for ensuring the compliance of all area-specific clinical activities with federal, state, institutional, and accreditation-related policies.

Research Mission:

• Provides incentive and mentoring for faculty, residents, fellows, and students in order to encourage and support scholarship and research.
• Supports research within the department as well as collaborative efforts with other programs in the university community.
• Encourages, facilitates, and supports all efforts to acquire research funding.

Educational Mission:

• Assures that high-quality education programs are provided for postgraduate physician trainees within the department, as well as medical and other health profession students who rotate through the department; e.g., medical students, allied health students and nursing students. This responsibility extends to all outreach education programs.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Core Competencies/ Leadership Qualifications:

• An understanding of the issues in today's academic healthcare environment, including the integration of clinical, education, and research initiatives.
• Strategic, problem-solving orientation and superior planning, organizational, and financial management skills are critical.
• Proven ability to define issues, strategically plan options, and define solutions; implement changes within targeted time frames.
• Proven ability to recruit like-minded exceptional talent as required to support departmental, health system, and organizational needs and priorities.
• An understanding of current and evolving systems within the healthcare industry.
• Must understand and have some experience with the following key issues: the educational process, faculty development and governance, managing fiscal resources, the research process, and patient care, coordination of diverse groups with competing interests, arbitration and group process skills.
• Must have research competence and experience with scientific method.
• Ability to organize and evaluate teaching and research programs.
• Ability to write scientific and fiscal proposals and to manage fiscal resources.
• Ability to evaluate student's potential and performance.
• Ability to evaluate faculty potential and performance.
• Demonstrated record of leadership ability and accomplishment.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills including a high degree of professionalism and competence in dealing with a variety of individuals.
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience managing a large number of programs.
• Familiarity with information systems, regulatory compliance issues and business operations, particularly for academic environment as well as the healthcare environment.

Personal Characteristics:

• Relates well to people at all levels in the organization and develops strong positive relationships based on trust.
• Someone who is energetic, genuine, enjoys working with people at all levels of the organization, and has a good sense of humor.
• Must have knowledge of, strongly support, and personal belief in the Mission and Values of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
• Has a strong customer focus and operates with a positive "can-do" philosophy.
• Someone who has the highest level of honesty and integrity.
• Someone who is energized by educating and…